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rated 0 times [ 21] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 46968 / 1 Year ago, thu, march 9, 2023, 10:36:20

I know that the command to update the repository lists is:

apt-get update

How to check if it has been executed today or in the last 24 hours?

I do not know if I should check some file timestamp. Or issue another apt command. Or use dpkg utility.

Could not find something useful at man pages.

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answered 1 Year ago unsmmoth · Accepted Answer

You can check your command history in terminal :

history | grep 'apt update'

To check it by time :

HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T " history | grep '[a]pt update'

(The [a] part of the regular expression only matches the letter a but has the effect to not match itself when grepping in the history.)